The article considers Lugovskaya I and II sites, the materials of which formed the basis for identification of a number of cultures of the Late Bronze Age in the Volga-Kama region in the second half of the 20th century. The authors...
moreThe article considers Lugovskaya I and II sites, the materials of which formed the basis for identification of a number of cultures of the Late Bronze Age in the Volga-Kama region in the second half of the 20th century. The authors conclude that Lugovskaya I and II sites belong to different cultures and different cultural and chronological horizons of the Late Bronze Age of the Volga-Kama region. Lugovskaya I site is a reference monument of Lugovo archaeological culture. According to the known calibrated radiocarbon dates and metal articles of Lugovskaya culture, the main complex of Lugovskaya I site dates back to the 17th-15th / 14th centuries B. C. Lugovskaya culture itself was formed in a later period than Srubnaya and Fedorovo, and coincides with Suskanskaya and Cherkaskulskaya cultures, which is partly confirmed by site materials. A special fire burial rite was revealed at Lugovskaya I site in the settlement area, and its earliest traces were discovered in an agricultural activity area. Lugovskaya II site corresponding to a later period than Lugovskaya I, belongs to the Atabaevo stage of Maklasheevo culture and Mezhovskaya (Late Lugovskaya) culture. According to the metal articles, funeral rite, ornamentation of the vessels with rollers, the Atabaevo stage of Maklasheevo culture and Mezhovskaya culture are synchronous with the roller cultures of the Eurasian steppe area and certain Andronoid cultures of the Trans-Urals. Based on the counterparts, the material of the site dates back to the
14th-12th centuries B.C. According to the insignificant amount of ceramics of the Maklasheevo stage of Maklasheevo culture of the Final Bronze age (11th-10th centuries B.C.), Lugovskaya II site is deserted in the specified time period.
